Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the se… - Ayn Rand

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It — there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.